Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1928 — Page 4

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Getting Desperate The Leslie candidacy becomes a rather desperate affair when it becomes necessary lor him to challenge the veracity of Judge A. B. Anderson and to send former Governor Goodrich to put the label of approval, not to say ownership, upon him. Lacking the courage to repeat the libel upon his opponent which he made at Ft. Wayne, Leslie sends a state senator to the radio to repeat it. The people now have the plain choice. They can believe Leslie or they can believe Judge A. B. Anderson, who declared the charge to be untrue and added that Dailey, the prosecutor, was at all times ‘ vigilant, zealous and upright. ’ As for Goodrich there are citizens who will now look beneath the Leslie chip with even more keenness than before. The activities of Goodrich in the state have not always, been productive of confidence. People have watched and followed the disasters that mark his trail. Perhaps his speech was intended to assure the boys that he and not Senator Watson would control the state boards in the future, if Leslie is elected. That sort of contingency has little of hope for the state. As between a Watson macnine and a Goodrich manipulator of public affairs, the people probably will choose neither. The Leslie managers must have felt the need of oxygen when they produce Goodrich as a'reviver of inmust be more than desperate when they dare to imply that Judge Anderson is a liar. Dry Despotism If Governor A1 Smith expected any shock of surprise when he announced that the Anti-Saloon League had threatened to oppose Senator George Norris of Nebraska in all future elections because of his endorsement of Smith, he will get none in Indiana. It is true that Norris in the past has been a consistent dry in his votes and personal practices and has at all times voted to uphold the prohibition amendment and the strictest of enforcement acts. In the past the league has indorsed him for office. It is also true that he has earned the respect of millions of progressives by his attitude on public questions. This year, for reasons of his own, he prefers to support the Democratic rather than the Republican candidate. Norris has made great contributions to this nation. He has been sturdy in defense of popular rights and against invasions of civil liberties. These services are to be forgotten by the league, which, in advance of his Smith indorsement, ser\ed notice that it would fight him unless he obeyed its demands to stay within the Republican party. Indiana, especially, will not be surprised. It would expect that sort of political practics from the league because it has so often observed the same thing at home. It is happening now’. No worse threat can be offered to free institutions than the campaign of the league to defeat Chief Justice David Myers of the supreme bench, who is running on the Republican ticket. That campaign being carried on by the league is an open effort to control the court and to write the decisions for the highest court. The league has a rather strong influence now within that court. It can count at all times upon votes for its views on what it wants written into law by judicial decree, rather than by constitutional methods. Its crusade against Myers is the challenge to the judiciary and an announcement, in fact, that it intends to punish or control the judges. The announcement by the league is that the opponent of Myers is wet and undesirable, but that any one is preferable to the chief justice who showed courage when threats and pressure were placed upon him. Despotism takes many forms. Creating a dictatorship in this state for the dry professionals can be most easily accomplished by giving the dry leader the power to control the courts. Here is one vicious influence in government which must be curbed if there is to remain a free government or any semblance of orderly liberty. How to Provoke a War On the eve of the death and burial of the British plan to control the rubber market, comes the news of a similar move to dominate the world’s supply of nickel, indispensable alike in peace and war. Next Thursday, Nov. 1, the Stevenson act, under which the rubber of Ceylon, Malaya and the British East Indies was produced and marketed, goes by the boards. But not before it had cost American automobile owners and other users of rubber hundreds of millions of dollars. When the Stevenson act came into vigor shortly after the World war, British plantations were supplying the world with approximately 75 per cent of its rubber. Today they supply only about 55 per cent. The act, therefore, has hurt rather than helped, so it officially ceases to be after Nov. 1. Undaunted by this experience, however, Great Britain is going after a monopoly on nickel, doubtless hoping for better luck. Says the Toronto Mail and Empire: “Canadian control of International Nickel, gained by a spectacular battle on the stock exchanges of Toronto, Montreal and New York, is but a part of Great Britain’s policy to insure world peace by dominating the source of supply or one of the essential implements of war. . . . the significant move back of it all was a British fight for peace and the results will be world-wide.” It is a dangerous sea that Great Britain seems to have embarked upon. "To insure world peace by dominating the source of supply' of any vital raw material is no insurance against war whatever, but rather a provocative of war. A strong parent may prevent stomach ache among children by preventing them getting at the jam, but Britain occupies no sucn parental position with regard to the rest of the world. The actual situation is different. Let us suppose two groups of people have been cast ashore on a bleak island somewhere in the ocean and on this island there is but one source of fi-esh water, a spring bubbling out of the ground. It requires little imagination to figure out what would happen if one group took possession of this spring and attempted to keep the other from it. In time, of ciurse, one group igould wipe out the other.

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That would be inevitable if the two groups could not agree to permit all to get at the life-giving liquid. Self-preservation is just as strong in nations as it is in individuals whose lives are more or less bound in a common detiny. And raw materials, materials vital to the national life and prosperity of a nation, will be ■ had at whatever cost, even at the cost of war, if the nation feels it has anytning like a fair chance to win. Cornering raw materials essential to the economic life of other nations, while its object may be to "insure world peace,” is an excellent way to provoke war. And Britain’s move in this general direction is a cause for worry rather than for congratulation. Yesterday it was rubber. Today it is nickel. Tomorrow likely enough it will be oil. Talk about "freedom of the seas,” here is an issue that is an issue. Access to the world’s supply of raw materials is absolutely essential to peace. All corners on the market, or attempts at such corners, are open invitations to trouble. Smith on Foreign Policy One of the most disquieting aspects of the campaign is the evasion by both presidential candidates of serious foreign questions facing the country. This newspaper supports Hoover, partly because his experience and humanitarian activities abroad fit him for wise leadership in foreign policy. But in his campaign he has not discussed such issues adequately. Sentaor Norris and some others have rallied to Smith, partly because they believe he would have a “liberal” foreign policy. Last night at Baltimore Smith talked a great deal about foreign affairs without saying anything. He did not commit himself on a single concrete issue. He revealed an almost complete ignorance of the subject, or a worse timidity. What he said in favor of peace and against entangling alliances in Europe, and in favor of protecting American interests abroad and against interference in Latin America, was meaningless, generally, as proved by the present administration, which has said precisely the same things all along. Here are some of the definite foreign issues of immediate and grave importance, as every newspaper reader knows: Shall this government withdraw marines from Nicaragua, Haiti, and China? Shall it further reduce war debts? Shall it revise its reservations to permit adherence to the world court? Shall it refuse to ratify the Kellogg anti-war pact, on the ground that foreign reservations reverse the peace purpose of that treaty? Shall it refuse a naval limitation agreement until Great Britain giants cruiser parity? Shall it grant demands of Filipinos for independence, or of Porto Ricans for statehood, and of Virgin Islanders for citizenship? Shall it try to force the rejected military-alliance treaty on Panama? Shall it block the Cuban effort to end the Platt amendment protectorate? Shall ‘t grant China’s demand for abolition of extra-terri-toriality? Shall it recognize Russia? Shjill it build sixteen naval ships, or seventy-six, or none? Shall It refuse to mix in Mexico's church and state dispute? The American people are aware that one of Smith’s chief disabilities is his complete lack of experience in foreign affairs of any kind. He can not help that. But with all his talk about frankness, Smith might at least be expected to give the voters some idea of his position on one or two of the score of serious international issues which would face him on his first day in the White House. Hoover has declared himself on some of those questions, such as the Kellogg pact and debts. His silence on others is bad enough, though not comparable to Smith’s.

David Dietz on Science No Taste for Beer No. 194

PASTEUR, as a result of his work on the fermentation of alcohol and wine and on the diseases of silkworms, had become an idol to the French people. His students worshiped him as though he were some god. But at heart, Pasteur was very human. The siege s>f Paris during the war of 1870 drove him out of Paris and forced

a research which would give him revenge. German beer was known to be far superior to French beer. Pasteur decided that he would show the French brewers how to excel the Germans. And so his laboratory was turned into a miniature brewery with copper kettles and Pasteur started to brew beer. But as the work progressed, it was necessary for Pasteur to taste the beer. How else could he tell whether the Deer was any good? Soon a great joke was being circulated among the professors and students of the Ecole Normale. Pasteur hated beer. But he had to go right on drinking it. Some of the professors who did not share his dislike, would drop into his laboratory to help him do the tasting. De Kruif writes, “Pasteur did help the French beer industry. “For that we have the testimony of the good brewers themselves. “It is my duty to doubt, however, the claims of those idolizers of his who insist that he made French beer the equal of German beer. I do not deny this claim, but I beg that it be submitted to a commission, one of those solemn, impartial, international commissions, the kind of commission that Pasteur himself so often demanded to decide before all the world whether he or his detested opponents were in the right.” Pasteur was now the most-talked-of scientist of Europe. He was no hermit who hid away in a laboratory. He let the world know what he was about. And in many ways this was a good thing. For it fired the public imagination and stirred the people everywhere to take an interest In science and what it had to offer for mankind. Pasteur had said many times that the path to the conquest of disease was to be found through the study of microbes. His prediction was first brought true by the work of an Englishman—Joseph Lister, later made Baron Lister. Next we will leave Pasteur for a few days to follow the work of this peat British surgeon.

M. E. TRACY ' SAYS: “Seven or Eight Million New Voters Complicate the Problem. No one Knoxvs How They Will Be Distributed. . . . The Preposterous Difference in Predictions Reveals How Hopelessly Confused the Situation Has Become.”

According to the best figures obtainable, some 43,000,000 Americans have qualified as voters in the coming election. This represents an increase of seven or eight million over the registration of four years ago. Together with the shift that has been indicated, seven or eight million new voters complicate the problem. No one knows how they will be distributed. Absence of issues and the injection of prejudice have smashed party lines. To an obvious extent, the parties have changed places. Hoover, heading the party that is supposed to stand for centralization, comes out for less government. Governor Smith, heading the party that is supposed to stand for Jeffersonian principles, comes out for more government. Farm relief, prohibition, the tariff, water power, immigration, and most every other problem with which we are confronted have been approached in such a curious way as to leave the average citizen in doubt. He hardly can line up with either party without compromising 1 mself in some way or other. The result is that in nine cases out of ten he falls back on his tradition. That tradition may be dominated by the political environment in which he grew up, by religion, by his atitude toward liquor, or any one of a dozen other complexes. The preposterous difference in predictions reveals how hopelessly confused the situation has become. tt tt tt Murder and Mentality Two more college students take the murder road to get a kick. Campus life was too dull, the effect of bad liquor too satisfying and the prospect of adventure at the point of a gat too alluring. Shall \\’e chalk up the crime as a black mark against higher education, or merely blame it on the vagaries of human nature? Not pausing to argue that point, why did not some psychological sharp discover what was going on in the minds of these two youths? We shall hear a great deal about their mental condition from now on. Plenty of evidence will be produced to prove that they were queer. Relatives and friends will be brought forward to testify as to their peculiar actions. The court room will ring with discourses and explanations to prove their mental deficiency. ft tt tt No Money for Zeps The Graf Zeppelin departs for Germany with our government air experts keeping close tabs on her and getting all the Information they can. Every improvement she possesses, we are told, will be utilized in the construction of the two dirigibles which the Goodyear Company has been authorized to construct. Meanwhile, our business men, though curious, appear unimpressed. Dr. Eckener came here for two reasons, First, he wanted to prove what the Graf Zeppelin could do. Second, he wanted to raise money with which to start a fleet of air liners. Whether he made a successful demonstration, he did not get the money. In spite of our great wealth, prosperity and surplus cash, we appear to have no dollars to gamble on the dirigible If the dirigible turns out a failure, we can pat ourselves on the back and point with pride to our discretion. If she turns out otherwise, we shall find it harder to think of a plausible alibi. tt tt a All for Fun It seems much easier to raise money in this country for recreation enterprises than for those of a more serious character. On Sunday, 50,000 people attended the dedication ceremonies of the new Fox Movietone studio in los Angeles. Not only prayers were offered, but addresses made in which the growth and progress of southern California were depicted as owing much to the moving picture industry. No one familiar with the situation will dispute that idea. The movies have done a lot for the Pacific coast. They have not only furnished employment for thousands, but have assisted materially in the building of towns and the promotion of real estate subdivisions. The spirit that has brought the movie industry to its present proportions is to be commended, but it is too bad that it could not find more diversified expression. tt tt tt Any Dunce Can See It George Bernard Shaw is ao gloomy as Dean Inge Disarm the nations, he says, and men still will bite each other. A trite saying which leaves out half the turth. The motive for disarmament counts more than the fact. When men arrive at a point where they are willing to lay down their guns, why should they revert to their teeth? Any dunce knows that man car commit murder with an ax. or even with his bare hands. When he consents to give up the modern instruments of murder, however, any dunce should know that it is onlv because he has lost some of hi: taste for murder. Disarmament is not so important because it removes deadly weapomas because it visualizes anew idea’ The mere fact that we are In a mood to talk about it shows that we have made headway and that organized*peace has become a pos sibility in the human mind.

him to take refuge in the Jura hills. He developed a furious hatred for all things German. Once he said, “Every one of my works will bear on its title page, ‘Hatred to Prussia, Revenge, Revenge’.” Then with what De Kruif calls “a magnificent silliness,” he decided to embark upon

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyeeia, the Health Maeaxine. ONE of the most interesting documents for the average man is the health habit sheet by Drs. J. M&ce Andress and I. H. Goldberger in a consideration of the essentials of healthy living. In tabular form they have listed forty health habits with special reference to pupils. Any person may check up his health routine, and follow its progress from day to day. These forty health ideas "hould be kept in mind by every person interested in good personal hygiene. The list follows: Posture Small pillow used when sleeping. Stand tall. Sit erect with head up and chest lifted. Books carried at arn/s length and changed from one to the other. Shoes for school which do not cramp the toes and without high heels. Food Thorough chewing (mastication). Some raw food or fruit eaten daily. Some green vegetables eaten daliy in addition to other foods.

RALPH D. BLUMENFELD. editor of the London Express and head of the British journalistic mission, touring this country, says that the League of Nations has become utterly ineffective and has de generated into a “germ-laden talking machine,” which is the most serious unofficial admission of the failure of the Geneva dream yet uttered, and also is a complete confirmation of the prophecies of those United States senators, whose opposition to the league prevented our entrance into it. tt tt tt But Blumenfeld’s suggestion that another league be formed, consisting of the United States, Great Britain, Germany. France, Italy and Ja,pan, to keep the peace of the world by force, does not appeal at all. This is the very purpose of the present league to nail'down existing arbitrary boundary lines and hold down restless subject peoples, going everywhere from pole to pole to do it. Instead of sitting on top of the world, Uncle Sam would become a universal trouble man; instead of having peace, he would have hives. Nay, nay—Pauline! tt tt tt A1 Smith gave the Hub the greatest thrill it has known since the Boston tea party, and the crowds wore thinking of something stronger than tea.

BY FABYAN MATHEY Spades are trumps, and South has the lead. North and South must win four, of the five tricks, against a perfect defense.

LB AY the cards out on the table, as shown in the diagram. Study them and see if you can find how North and South can win four of the five tricks. The one way in w’hich this can be done is outlined

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One pint (at least) of milk, consumed daily. No candy between meals. No coffee. One glass of water upon rising. Four (at least) additional glasses of water during the day. Exercise Brief setting-up exercises before dressing and before retiring. No violent exercises immediately after eating. One-half hour (at least) each day of enjoyable recreation out of doors. Cleanliness Soap and water used daily for bodily cleanliness. Hot bath at least once a week. Individual towel. Hands and face washed before breakfast and dinner (also before lunch when possible.) Teeth brushed at least twice a day. Dental floss used at least one a week. Finger nails cleaned daily, and not bitten. Hair and scalp clean. Shampoo every two weeks. Home Environment Room temperature not over 70 degrees during months when controllable. Thermometer consulted.

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By Frederick LANDIS

AN oyster with only one pearl in it would have felt humiliated hopelessly at this recent banquet in New. York City, given by the national conference of major industries, where seven of the guests represented an estimated wealth of $10,000,000,000. And needless to say, none of those seven guests represented the real major industry of the United States —agriculture! tt tt tt The disabled ex-service man, hunting a job, who reads that Douglas Fairbanks is in Washington, trying to adjust a little matter of more than a million dollars income tax, may conclude possibly that in some respects it is better to play a hero than be one. n tt a We trust there is nothing in the claim of this young English scientist to the effect that he has discovered a way by which every man overcome the law of gravity, for this is the one and only law which now is in force in the United States!

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The Solution

TN this problem the solution lies in forcing the opponents to make a lead highly undesirable for themselves. South leads his club. If West wins the trick, he must either lead a heart, giving North and South two tricks in that suit, or he must lead a club or a diamond, which allows North and South to discard a heart in one hand, trump in the other and then win the remaining tricks Os course, if East takes the opening club trick he also must lead a club or a diamond. There is a slight variation to this problem in that North and South may lead one round of trumps before leading the club, j (Convrleht. 1W *’ T ’ , Tnc )

Bedroom windows opened at night (screened in summer). Steady and sufficient artificial light, when studying or reading and avoidance of glare. Quiet room for study. Relaxation and Rest At least eight hours sleep. Prevention of fatigue, when studying, by short rest periods. Music (radio, piano, etc.) or games for recreation in the home. Avoidance in general of movies and parties, during the school week. Regularity Regular toilet habits. in time to attend to all necessary details and breakfast without excessive hurry. Meals at regular times. Home study at regular times and in general not after 10 p. m. Concentration of mind on worx when studying. Attitude of punctuality to all engagements. Co-operation Annual health examination or medical attention to remediable defects, such as poor vision, flat feet, adenoids, etc. Dental examination. cleaning and correction of defects at least every school terms. No smoking.

NAY, NAY, PAULINE THE HUNTING SEASON tt tt tt PAGE TIIE ANARCHISTS

'T'HE hunting season appears to be on in full blast. Lindy is hunting bears in Mexico; the mayor of Philadelphia is hunting grafters; Mayor Thompson is hunting King George; Aimee McPherson is hunting lost souls in London: Attorney-General Gilliom is hunting dragons and Mr. Shumaker is hunting judges, and both are hunting each other; Henry Ford is hunting relics; Mabel Willebrandt Is hunting headlines; King Boris of Bulgaria is hunting a wife; Byrd is hunting the south pole; Conan Doyle is hunting spooks; Mussolini is still hunting trouble; Europe still is hunting a loan; the Prince of Wales is hunting elephants; Heflin is hunting the Pope; Raskob is hunting a drink; Work is hunting an alibi; Smith is hunting his brown derby, and all the voters of the United States are hunting jack-rabbits! a tt it What has become of the old reliable anarchists of our beloved land? We used to read ir; every paper of the dynamite activities of the fuzzy boys and the secret service always slept with one eye open. Before his senatorial term expires, Jim Reed should investigate this. tt a tt The great crowds which pour into the Hoover and Smith meetings merely prove that the American people may be depended on at all times to patronize good shows, provided they play at popular prices.

This Date in V. S. History

October 30 1787—Continental congress adjourned. 1875 —Missouri adopted anew constitution. 1893—Worl’s fair at Chicago closed; total attendance. 27,639,041; receipts, $28,151,108.

Daily 'Thoughts

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.—Romans 12:15. tt u a WE are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.—Goethe.

OCT. 30, 1928

KEEPING Cl With THE NEWS

BY LUDYVELL DENNY (Copyright, Newspapers, Washington! oct. 30.—Opposition to Smith’s election on sectarian grounds, which the candidate attacked as un-Americau in his Baltimore speech last night., is helping A1 much more than it is hurting him. This paradox is revealed by a study of the campaign situation in which the election will be determined by “doubtful” states where Catholics hold the balance of power. There can be no question that sectarianism is a campaign issue, and in a great many districts the major issue, despite religious guarantees of the United States Constitution and despite statements by both parties and both candidates disavowing that issue. 1 Practically all political scouts and newspaper correspondents who have toured the country admit that they found violent sectarian antipathies almost everywhere. Because this predominantly is a Protestant population country, and because so many large anti-Catholi' organizations have been active during the campaign, there is a general assumption that this will injure Smith, perhaps to the point of assuring his defeat. Like many isolated political assumptions, this one would appear wellfounded if it did not ignore other conflicting factors, and if American presidents were elected by popular instead of by electoral vote it v it THE reasons anti-Catholic activities cannot defeat Smith, but actually help him, are: Those activities are most virulent in the south, where they are reducing, but cannot wipe out the traditionally preponderant Democratic election majority. If Smith carries those states, as he is expected to do, it is of no election consequence whatever that the normal DemoI cratic vote is cut down by several million. ! Those activltes are also dominant [ in a northern bloc of states, Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, where they quite definitely reduce Al’s chances of victory. But the point here is that A1 would have no chance anyway of carrying these Republican states, with the bare possible exception of Indiana. The election significance of these ectarian activities therefore is limited exclusively to the doubtful states. And, although most of those doubtful states are Protestant, those with the largest total of electoral votes are precisely the ones such as New York, where the pro-Catholic j vote far outnumbers the pro-klan j vote. Keeping in mind that Hoover will ! be aided by the anti-Catholic vote j in Ohio, where he needs no help, | and in North Carolina, where all I the anti-Catholic agitation probably i will not be sufficient to net him a j single electoral vote, there are very j few doubtful states where sectarialiim can win for Hoover. Those are Oklahoma (10 electoral votes), Kentucky (13>, Tennessee (12) and possibly one or two smaller electoral vote states. At the moment it seems that Hoover will carry Oklahoma, largely because of sectarianism. If he carries Kentucky, which is very close, his edge may be attributed to sectarianism. The same is .true of Tennessee, though Hoover now is not expected to pull through in that state. So the gain for Hoover from the sectarianism which he disavows may be only 10 electoral votes, probably will not be more than 23, and cannot be over 40 at the very outside. tt it tt BUT Smith fares much better, as a result of natural and inevlt- : able reaction by Catholic and antiklansmen against the “un-Ameri-can” agitation which seeks to “victimize” Smith. Those Catholics and anti-klansmen may, and probably will, be able to swing New York (45), Massachusetts (18), Rhode Island (5), and possibly other states to Smith. It is axiomatic that A1 can not be elected without New York, or even without both New York and Massachusetts. Both of those normally Republican states are so close that even Democratic newspapers do not put them in the “certain” Smith column. If he wins them, it fairly may be attributed to the so-called protest Catholic vote. There are sixty-three electoral votes alone, without counting Rhode Island and other possibilities. In Massachusetts and Rhode Island the Republican and Demo- ■ cratic leaders quite frankly admit in I private that the French-Canadian Catholics hold the balance of power Nov. 6 There is a deep traditional chasm between the French-Canadi-an Catholics, who are Republicans and the Irish Catholics, who are Democrats. But this year the political attack on the Catholic church is causing many, if not most, of these Republican Catholics to rally around Smith. And, thanks to the electoral college system, one such eastern Catholic is worth more to either presidential candidate than ten Ohio Methodists recruited by Mrs. Willebrandt or twenty southern Baptists bolting with Senator Heflin.

Questions and Answers

Were any one cent pieces coined In the UnHeu States in 1922? Yes. One-cent pieces to the value of $71,600 were Issued In that year. When did Oklahoma and Kentucky enact a “Jim Crow’’ law? Oklahoma in 1907 and Kentucky in 1801. ——' W '' At the time of the signing of the armistice after the World War what Mas the length of the German western front? Approximately 250 miles extending from the North Sea to the Moselle.